Door-hanger.



No. 743,141. PATENTED NOV. s, 1903 RBRENT. DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1903.

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No 743,141. PATENTED NOV.'3, 1903.

E. BRENT. 1100 HANGER.

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UNITE STATES Patented November 3, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

DOOR-HANGER.

JPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,141, dated November 3, 1903.

Application filed March 18, 1903.

T at whom it inayconccrn;

Be it known that I, EDWIN BRENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in

the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented and produced certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to hangers for the doors of street-cars and the like, and more particularly to that class of doors which are double or comprise two halves or doors adapted to slide oppositely apart from one another in opening. In this class of doors it is essential that the meeting edges of the two halves be always exactly parallel, so that when they come together there will be a tight closure. Each half of the door, it will be understood, is usually hung from its'top by wheels or pulleys running upon tracks mounted upon the car-body, one of said wheels being usually upon the top of the door near its inner edge and the other upon the outer lateral edge of the door near its top to accommodate the ourvature of the roof of the car. If, therefore, it happens that the vertical meeting edge of a door hangs out of vertical'line, it will be necessary in order to true the same to shift one or the other of said wheels or pulleys. Obviously to do this with any accuracy or minuteness of adjustment is extremely difficult, since the screws. holding the sheaves of said wheels cannot well be shifted a fraction of their diameter.

The objects'of this invention, therefore, are to provide a hanger for car-doors which will enable an adjustment of the latter to be made with accuracy and convenience; to enable such adjustment to be made quickly andwithout removing the hanger from its place; to provide a construction which can be used in the same places as the hangers now in common use; to provide means for positively locking the device when adjusted against looseness or inadvertent movement, and to obtain other advantages and results some of Serial No. 148.301. (No model.)

which may be hereinafter referred to in connection with the description of the working 1 arts.

1 The invention consists in the improved hanger for car-doors and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all a substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the jclaim.

i Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate [corresponding parts in each of the several fig- ;ures, Figure 1 is an end View of a portion of car, showing one of my improved hangers mounted upon the door. Fig. 2 is a View in elevation of the device removed from the car. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. 4 is a reverse iplan; and Fig. 5 is a central section taken gupon line 02, Fig. 2, looking upward.

, In said drawings, lindicates one half of the gdouble door of a car, having a hanger 2 of my improved construction mounted thereon at its outer lateral edge near the top of the idoor, the wheel or pulley 3 of said hanger being adapted to run between tracks or guides l4 4 upon the car-body 5.

11 The hanger comprises in its construction a idoor-plate 6, adapted to lie flatwise upon the ledge of the door 1 and being perforated, as at ,7 7, to receive fastening-screws. Said plate has at one lateral edge a right-angular fin or iextension 8, and upon the inner side of said \fin overlaps one side wall9 of the housing 10 {for the sheave or wheel 3, said housing exttending in U shape around the edge of the wheel farthest away from the plate 6 andprovidinga second side wall or arm 11 at the opfposite side of the fin 8 and parallel to the arm 59 described. Between-said arms 9 and 11 is tmounted the peripherally-grooved pulley or wheel 3, said wheel being preferably fast upon a short shaft 12, mounted in bearings 13 13 ,in said opposite arms. This wheel runs upon ithe guides 4 4, before described.

Where the arm 9 overlaps the fin 8, the said parts have registering perforations, the one in the fin being threaded, and a clam ping-bolt or set-screw 14 is then passed through the said perforations and adapted to screw into the fin, thus providing a hinge-pin or fulcrum for the housing, so that the latter may be swung to raise or lower the pulley. Preferably the fin is provided with a boss 15, which projects into the perforation 16 of the housing-arm 9, so that a stronger seat is secured for the clamping-bolt. A washer 17 is then placed beneath the head of the bolt to extend outward to and bear upon the arm 9 around said boss 15.

The arm 9 of the housing is also preferably offset toward the pulley after it leaves the fin 8, as at 2st, so as to bring the inner side surfaces of said arm and fin in the same plane.

To provide means for conveniently swinging the housing proper, I have shown an arm 18 projecting laterally therefrom substantially parallel to the plate 6 and below the shaft 12. Said arm is slotted, as at 19, to receive an adjusting-screw 20, passed therethrough and working at its threaded end in a seat 21 on the rear side of the plate 6. The head of said screw bears against the outer side of the arm 18, and at the inner side of said arm are jam-nuts 22 23, which can be tightened against the said arm after it has been brought to the desired position. Any other suitable means adapted to the purpose may be used however. It will thus be evident that if the vertical meeting edge of a car-door is out of alinement it will be necessary only to loosen the jam-nuts 22 23 and pivotal bolt 14 and then turn the adjustingscrew 20 in either direction, as required. As soon as the car-door is in proper position the jam-nuts and pivotal bolt are again tightened and the job is completed.

It will be evident that various modifications of the detail structure of my invention may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting myself by the positive descriptive terms em-.

ployed except as the state of the art may require.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is-- '1. Adoor-hanger comprisinginitsconstruction a door-plate, a wheel-housing pivotally connected to said plate, means for clamping said housing in fixed relation to said plate, and a wheel mounted in said housing.

2. Adoor-hanger comprisingin its construction a door-plate and a wheel-housing, said parts overlapping and havinga stud upon one projecting into a perforation in the other, a screw at substantially right angles to said stud passing loosely through one of the said parts connected as set forth and engaging a threaded socket on the other, a wheel mounted in the housing, and means for clamping said housing and door-plate in fixed section.

3. Adoor-hangercomprisinginitsconstruction a plate adapted to be secured to a door, a wheel-housing pivotally connected to said plate and having a projecting arm, a screw working loosely through said arm into a threaded socket in the door-plate,and a wheel mounted in said housing.

4. Adoor-hanger comprisinginits construction a door-plate, a wheel-housing pivotally connected to said plate and having a projecting arm, a threaded rod extending through said door-plate and arm, means upon said rod for shifting said arm with respect to the plate, and a wheel mounted in. said housing.

5. Adoor-hanger,havingan attaching-plate with a right-angular fin, a wheel-housinghaving one side wall extended and overlapping fiatwise upon said fin, a clamping-bolt passed through said overlapping parts, and a wheel mounted in said housing.

6. Adoor-hanger,having an attaching-plate with a projecting fin havinga threaded aperture, a wheel-housing having one side wall lapping fiatwise upon said fin and being perforated in alinement with the perforation therein,a clamping-screw working in said perforations, and a wheel mounted'in said housing.

7. A door-hanger having an attaching-plate provided with a fin having a circular boss on one side, centrally perforated and threaded, a wheel-housing lapping at one side wall flatwise upon said fin and being perforated to receive said boss to bind the said housing thereto, and a wheel mounted in said housing.

8. Ado0r-hanger,havinganattaching-plate provided with a right-angular fin, a wheelhousing lapping at the inner surface of one of itssides flatwise against said fin, and being bent or offset inwardly adjacent to the end of said fin to lie in the plane of said fin, a pivotal clamping-bolt connecting said overlapping parts, and a wheel mounted in said housing.

9. Adoor-hangerghaving an attaching-plate provided with a right-angular fin, and having a threaded perforation, a wheel-housing pivoted to said fin and having a projecting arm adapted to lie parallel to the attaching-plate, said arm being slotted, a headed adjustingscrew passing through said slotted arm and working in the threaded perforation of the attaehing-plate,and lock-nuts upon said screw between the arm and plate.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of March, 1903.

EDWIN BRENT.

Witnesses:

RUSSELL M. EVERETT, R. BRENT.

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